A cross-calibration of GMS-5 thermal channels against ATSR-2

Merchant, C. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-9850, Simpson, J. J. and Harris, A. R. (2003) A cross-calibration of GMS-5 thermal channels against ATSR-2. Remote Sensing of Environment, 84 (2). pp. 268-282. ISSN 0034-4257 doi: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00112-8

Abstract/Summary

Motivated by the importance to weather and climate of the Indo-Pacific seas, we present a new calibration of the Visible Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (VISSR) on the geostationary meteorological satellite, GMS-5. VISSR imagery has significant potential for exploring the dynamics of the ocean and air–sea interactions in this poorly characterized region, by virtue of the VISSR's surface temperature retrieval capability and hourly sampling. However, the calibration of the thermal imagery supplied by the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) is inconsistent with the spectral characteristics of the channels, and published details of the JMA calibration procedure are scant. We use the well-characterized Along-Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) as a reference, and determine calibration corrections for GMS-5 VISSR. We obtain more credible VISSR brightness temperatures and demonstrate sea surface temperature (SST) retrieval that validates well against in situ measurements (bias ∼0.3 and scatter ∼0.4 K). Comparison with a widely used sea surface temperature analysis shows that the GMS-5 VISSR SST fields capture important spatial structure, absent in the analysis.

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URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/33780
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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	Elsevier
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